Sentence examples for was rather drab from inspiring English sources

And on a night when the performance as a whole was rather drab, Ms. Voigt's musical vitality and vocal charisma were especially welcome.

Visually it is rather drab.

The females have a less noisy quacking call and their plumage is rather drab.

Lotfi Mansouri's production has the look and feel of a storybook fairy tale, though for all the gilt and glitter of the elaborate 18th-century costumes and sets the overall color scheme is rather drab.

The hall is rather drab, and the fairy-tale flowers would dress up the place.

Anne Mensah, Sky's head of drama, thinks other broadcasters' efforts can be rather drab and worthy.

Most of the freckled, blunt-nosed mahi-mahis on offer were rather drab-looking, but not the Mary I's; their bellies were bright lemon yellow and lime green.

As a counterpoint to the drab mainstream show, I was rather inspired by the 21 Pledges for Progress that the Institute of Ideas put forward that offered a range of commitments to discuss and organize around.

In the case of job fishing, that would be the often rather drab "entry-level job".

For Time Warner and its media conglomerate companions like News Corporation and Viacom, the times can seem rather drab — deal flow is a trickle, spicy corporate intrigue is absent.

But ultimately this is a rather drab "Zauberflöte," in which the magical elements aren't felt.